本文为约翰霍普金斯大学（作者：Bryan McCarthy）的硕士论文，共111页。

自2001年以来，无人机的使用呈指数增长。本文旨在探讨无人机如何改变美国达成其目标的方式。这一点很重要，因为尽管无人机为此做出了贡献，但误用无人机仍有可能限制其在危险情况下的使用，从而将任务留给有人驾驶飞机或地面部队。

通过对巴基斯坦、也门、马里和阿富汗使用无人机的案例研究，分析了美国受无人机依赖影响的三个假设。第一章挑战了无人机的负面污名，并主张制定一项政策来指导其使用。本章讨论了与之相关的问题，即无人机本身存在的问题，还是无人机的使用存在问题？此外，本章还将无人机视为军事技术优势的自然进步。第二章探讨无人机是否可以在北非等地代替地面部队使用。有证据表明，尽管无人机将在非洲发挥其效用，但在某些情况下，它们仍然无法替代人类的参与。第三章论述了无人驾驶飞行器能否同时支持反叛乱和反恐行动。本章回顾的证据表明，无人驾驶飞机可以支持任何一项任务，但该任务需要清楚明确，以确保使用武力符合战争的战略目标。无论是哪种任务，无人机的作用都必须与整个任务试图实现的原则相一致。无人机作为一种军事技术优势的自然发展，已被证明是一个可靠的情报收集平台，并具有打击能力，但它们不能替代地面上的人类参与，还需要明确的任务来指导如何使用无人系统。

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)has grown exponentially since 2001. This thesis seeks to explore how unmannedaerial vehicles have changed the way in which theUnited Statesprosecutes itstargets. This is important because misusing unmanned aerial vehicles, despitetheir contributions, risks limiting their use in dangerous situations, leavingthe mission up to manned aircraft or ground forces. Case studies of UAV use inPakistan,Yemen,Mali, andAfghanistanwere used to analyze threehypotheses on the impact of the proliferation and seeming reliance of theUnited Stateson UAVs. The first chapter challenges the negative stigmas of UAVs and arguesfor a policy to guide their use. The chapter addresses the question, is it UAVsthat are a problem, or is it the implementation of UAVs that are a problem?Furthermore, this chapter establishes UAVs as a natural progression in atechnologically superior military. The second chapter explores if unmannedaerial vehicles can be used in places like North Africain lieu of ground forces. The evidence suggests that although UAVs will havetheir utility in Africa, they are still nosubstitute for human engagement in certain circumstances. The third chapteraddresses if unmanned aerial vehicles can support both counterinsurgency andcounterterrorism operations. The evidence reviewed in this chapter proposesdrones can support either mission, but the mission needs to be clear andunambiguous enough to ensure the use of force is consistent with the strategicobjectives of the war. In either type of mission, the role of the UAV has to beconsistent with the principles the overall mission is trying to achieve. As anatural progression of a technologically superior military, UAVs have proven tobe a reliable and dependable intelligence collection platform with a strikecapability, but they are no substitute for human engagement on the ground andrequire a clear and unambiguous mission to guide the use of force by theunmanned system.

1 无人机的控制不仅仅需要操纵杆

2 部署在非洲的无人机

3 部队是否合理地使用了无人机？

4 结论

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